Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some residents who believed the alarm was a fake did not leave their rooms at first, students said. Others near the fire said that the thick smoke and loud alarms disoriented them...
...sharper editing would have greatly aided this production, as would the introduction of transitional scenes to add coherence. We should not be left in darkness for several minutes while the actors struggle to reposition furniture for the next scene. And the dialogue Burton gives her Japanese characters sounds fake when translated into idiomatic English...
...Rhodes: The Rhodes gives students from all over the world the opportunity to spend two years at any one of Great Britain's many fine universities: Oxford and Cambridge. These schools are almost exactly like Harvard, only their Deans of Students are English men with fake American accents...
...front of a Boston branch of the Star Market chain, protesters distributed coffee cups of fake blood to generate support for the ongoing boycott of Folgers coffee, the leading Salvadoran brand...
...pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets are either too strong or too weak, never just right. In fact, the reader decides, the men are handsome fakes, big-jawed 42 regulars snipped from a Ralph Lauren ad to act out Dinah's problem. They meet Dinah in a fake world, where no one has money troubles and there's nothing between Los Angeles and East Hampton...